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The world’s most powerful drug lord may be headed back to a prison he’s already broken out of

A little over three months after arriving at a prison near the US border, Sinaloa cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán is to be sent back to Altiplano prison in central Mexico, where he pulled off a brazen escape in July 2015.

A federal judge in Mexico’s Chihuahua state ruled on August 17 that prison officials had transferred Guzmán in May without authorization.